Associate Professor
Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing

Genetics, trauma, intimate partner violence, women's health, adolescent and young adult health, relationships

2015, Invited member: Women’s Health Expert Panel (WHEP), American Academy of Nursing (AAN), Washington DC
2015, Distinguished Practitioner and Nursing Fellow: National Academies of Practice (FNAP), Lexington, Kentucky
2014, Burnside Watstein LGBT Award Nominee: Equality VCU, Richmond, Virginia
2013, 6th Cohort, Nurse Faculty Scholars Program, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Trenton, New Jersey
2012, Social-Behavioral Research Award, Women’s Health Research Day, Institute for Women’s Health, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia

2010, Graduate Dean’s Health Science Fellowship, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California

2008-2009, Dissertation Fellowship Award, Soroptimist International, Sierra Pacific Region
Graduate Dean’s Health Science Fellowship, University of California San Francisco
Graduate Student Research Award, University of California San Francisco
Deloras Jones RN Scholarship, Kaiser Permanente, Northern California
Nominee, Outstanding Clinical Faculty, University of California San Francisco
Minor in Nursing Education Completion Certification, University of California San Francisco School of Nursing, San Francisco, California

2008, Adolescent Health Core Completion Certificate, University of California San Francisco Department of Pediatrics, Division of Adolescent Medicine, San Francisco California

2007, Distinction: Qualifying Examination for Doctoral Candidacy, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California

2007, Award of Excellence, Best Student Poster; Nursing Network on Violence Against Women International, London, Ontario, Canada

2005-2006, Graduate Dean’s Health Science Fee Scholarship, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California

2003-2005, Patricia H. Snegireff Scholarship, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

Dr. Burton's major interest area is stress and trauma as they affect mental and physical health. She is particularly interested in trauma related to interpersonal relationships in the context of health disparities. Dr. Burton is a trained qualitative and mixed methodologist, and has published on the social determinants of health, structural violence, the trauma of violence and abuse, and nursing education on vulnerable populations. She holds undergraduate degrees in Studies in Women and Gender and in Nursing from the University of Virginia, and PhD from the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Burton is certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center in Advanced Forensic and Advanced Genetics Nursing.

Burton, C. W., (2016) The Health Needs of Young Women: Applying a Feminist Philosophical Lens to Nursing Science and Practice. Advances in Nursing Science, 39(2), 108-118. doi: 10.1097/ans.0000000000000119 [R]

Burton, C. W., McLemore, M. R., Halpern-Felsher, B., Thacker, L. R., Rehm, R. S., Rankin, S. H., Humphreys, J. C. (2016) Words Will Never Hurt Me: Sexual and Reproductive Risk Behaviors Among Young Adult Women with a History of Emotional and Verbal Adolescent Dating Abuse. Reproductive Health Matters. (in revision) [R, D]

Cha, S., Chapman, D. A., Wan, W., Burton, C. W., Woolf, S., Masho, S.W. (2016) Couple Pregnancy Intentions and Induced Abortions in the U.S. Journal for Women's Health and Reproduction Sciences. (in press) [R, D, S]

Cha, S., Chapman, D. A., Wan, W., Burton, C. W., Masho, S.W. (2015) Discordant Pregnancy Intentions in Couples and Rapid Repeat Pregnancy. Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Oct 28. pii: S0002-9378 (15) 01454-4. Epub ahead of print, doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2015.10.149 [R, D, S] PMID: 26519783

Cha, S., Chapman, D. A., Wan, W., Burton, C. W., Masho, S.W. (2015) Intimate
Partner Violence and Postpartum Contraceptive Use: The Role of Race/Ethnicity and Prenatal Birth Control Counseling. Contraception, 92(3), 268-275. doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2015.04.009 [R, D, S] PMID: 25935298

Burton, C. W., & Carlyle, K. E. (2015). Screening and Intervening: Evaluating a Training Program on Intimate Partner Violence and Reproductive Coercion for Family Planning and Home Visiting Providers. Family & Community Health, 38(3), 227-239. doi: 10.1097/FCH.0000000000000076 [R, D] PMID: 26017001

Burton, C. W., Halpern-Felsher, B., Rankin, S. H., Rehm, R. S., Humphreys, J. C. (2014)
Depression and Self-Rated Health Among Rural Women Who Experienced Adolescent Dating Abuse: A Mixed Methods Study. Journal of Interpersonal Violence (epub ahead of print) 2014, 1-22 doi: 10.1177/0886260514556766. [R, D] PMID: 25392389

Montpetit, A. J.; Alhareeri, A. A.; Montpetit, M; Starkweather, A. R.; Elmore, L. W.; Filler, K.; Mohanraj, L.; Burton, C. W.; Menzies, V. S.; Lyon, D. E.; Jackson-Cook, C. K. (2014). Telomere Length: A Review of Methods for Measurement. Nursing Research, 63(4), 289-299 doi: 210.1097/NNR.0000000000000037 [R] PMID: 24977726

Burton, C. W., Halpern-Felsher, B., Rehm, R. S., Rankin, S., & Humphreys, J. C. (2013). "It was pretty scary": The theme of fear in young adult women's descriptions of a history of adolescent dating abuse. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 34(11), 803-813. doi: 10.3109/01612840.2013.827286 [R, D] PMID: 24131412

Burton, C. W., Halpern-Felsher, B., Rankin, S. H., Rehm, R. S., Humphreys, J. C. (2011). Relationships and betrayal among young women: theoretical perspectives on adolescent dating abuse. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 67(6), 1393-1405. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2010.05565.x [R] PubMed PMID: 21261691
(Note: Also included in Journal of Advanced Nursing, Violence against Women: Special Virtual Issue; December 2015)

2014: Principal Investigator: Clinical Comparison of Exhaled Breath and Blood Analytes in a Sample of At-Risk Individuals Sponsored award ($3,000): Sigma Theta Tau, Gamma Omega Chapter Nursing Science and Practice Grant

2013-present: Principal Investigator: Biobehavioral Study of Teen Dating Violence: the EMBODY study Sponsored award ($350,000 over 3 years): Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholars Program

2012-present: Principal Investigator: Evaluation of Project Connect Training and Outcomes in a Sample of Family Planning and Public Health Care Providers Sponsored award ($30,000): Virginia Department of Health and Futures Without Violence

2008-2010: Principal Investigator: Young Women's Experiences of Dating Abuse: A Multi- Method Analysis of the Relationships between Depression and Suicidal Ideation, Risky Behaviors, and Abuse in Dating Relationships Dissertation Fellowship Award, Soroptimist International, Sierra Pacific Region ($7,500) Graduate Student Research Award, University of California San Francisco ($2,000)

2005-2007: Pre-Doctoral Fellow: National Institutes of Health Institutional Nursing Research Service Award, Symptom Research Fellowship, University of California San Francisco (Tuition + $22,572/yr stipend) (T-32 #2 T32 NR07088-10)

2018-2021: Principal Investigator: Orange County Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Expansion Sponsored award ($1.2 million): Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA)

Sigma Theta Tau

American Nurses Association

Nursing Network on Violence Against Women, International

National Academies of Practice

Advanced Forensic Nurse
University of Virginia 2010—2016

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Last updated
10/05/2022